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How to pronounce colours in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms colors
Type of flag
Has types ensign
Type Words
Synonyms colors
Type of emblem

Examples of colours

colours
Bright and airy, it is decorated in eucalyptus green and earthy outback colours.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
As I said, England's adoption of the host nation's colours is without precedent.
From the guardian.co.uk
Is there some kind of fan protest going on involving those colours or something?
From the guardian.co.uk
For the colours of Leinster and Northampton were not the only on show yesterday.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The blue and orange of the cabinets in the house are my old racing team colours.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Two feature shimmeringly bright colours while the others are dominated by white.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
My two other sisters being blonde, their colours were Periwinkle and Cornflower.
From the guardian.co.uk
Besides which, his outrageous range of colours is poorly served by reproduction.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Another factor might be that we are so used to seeing bright colours on the web.
From the newscientist.com
More examples
  • Add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
  • A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
  • Having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
  • Interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
  • Tinge: affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
  • The timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
  • Color or colour (see spelling differences) is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others. ...
  • Color is the third studio album by Japanese group NEWS, released on November 19, 2008. The album was released in a limited edition and regular edition. The regular edition comes with a bonus track. ...
  • In mathematical finance, the Greeks are the quantities representing the sensitivities of the price of derivatives such as options to a change in underlying parameters on which the value of an instrument or portfolio of financial instruments is dependent. ...